Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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In the night all cats are gray.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.